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Q10 Literature 50 0 Who wrote the poem with the following lines: "I chatter, chatter as I flow, To join thebrimming river"? Alfred Lord Tennyson William Blake Lewis Carroll W. B. Yeats To which village do these lines refer: "Stands the church clock at 10 to 3? And is there honey still for tea?" Grantchester Adlestrop Ovingdean Little Marlow "Into the valley of death rodethe six hundred" is a line from which poem by Tennyson? Charge of the Light Brigade Idylls of the King Morte d'Arthur The Lady of Shalott Who offered his kingdom for a horse in one of Shakespeare's plays? Richard III King John King Lear Henry VI What is the name of Billy Bunter's school? Greyfriars Winchester Harrow St Trinians What nationality was Louisa May Alcott? American English Australian Irish In which century did Geoffrey Chaucer live? l4th l6th l2th llth In which century did Samuel Pepys live? l7th l8th 15th 14th Who wrote the poem beginning: "Tyger, tyger burning bright"? William Blake Matthew Arnold Rudyard Kipling Edward Lear In which adventure story does Long John Silver appear? Treasure Island Peter Pan Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" was later producedas a musical. What was it called? My Fair Lady No, No, Nanette The Beggar's Opera Candide What was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans whose novels includeMiddlemarch and Adam Bede? George Eliot Jane Austen Elizabeth Gaskell Anthony Trollope Which area of England is associated with the novels of Thomas Hardy? Dorset Peak District Cotswolds Suffolk Who lived at Newstead Abbey, Notts? Lord Byron D. H. Lawrence R. L. Stevenson Charles Kingsley Which H. G. Wells' story was dramatised on the radio in America in the l930's and caused nationwide panic? War of the Worlds Time Machine The Invisible Man The Shape of Things to Come Who wrote "Das Kapital"? Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Leo Trotsky Vladimir Lenin Who wrote Watership Down? Richard Adams Enid Blyton Joan Aiken Robert O'Brien Who wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"? Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Thomas Hardy Edward Lear Fill in the missing figure: ...... Leagues Under the Sea. 20,000 10,000 500 30,000 Aramis and Porthos were two of"The Three Musketeers". Who was the third? Athos Balthazar Silvius Borachio Which 20th Century author created Eeyore, Piglet and Rabbit? A. A. Milne Beatrix Potter Roger Hargreaves Alison Uttley In which year was Alexander Solzhenitsyn exiled from Russia? 1974 1955 1964 1981 In which of Charlotte Bronte'snovels does one meet Adele, Mrs Fairfax and St John Rivers? Jane Eyre Shirley Villette The Professor Who wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar"? Roald Dahl Michael Foreman Helen Cresswell Enid Blyton Which bird was shot in Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner"? Albatross Frigate Bird Cormorant Shearwater Where is the setting for Arthur Ransom's "Swallows and Amazons"? Lake District Devon Norfolk Broads Sussex How many lines are there in a limerick? 5 10 8 14 "The Diary of Anne Frank" tells of how a young Jewish girl was hidden from the Nazis- in which country? Holland Germany Switzerland Poland In which Dickens' story does one meet Pip, Estelle and MissHaversham? Great Expectations David Copperfield Oliver Twist Little Dorrit Who wrote "The Chrysalids" and"Day of the Triffids"? John Wyndham Aldous Huxley H. G. Wells Douglas Adams In "Tom Brown's Schooldays" which school did Tom go to? Rugby Eton Harrow Winchester Where was "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte set? Yorkshire Dartmoor Cumbria Northumberland Which poet wrote "The Song of Hiawatha"? Henry Longfellow Thomas Hardy Walter Raleigh William Cowper Who is "Stig of the Dump"? A stone age boy A wizard A cat A goblin Arthur Conan Doyle wrote "A Study in ......."? Scarlet Baker Street Solitude Crime Who wrote "Jamaica Inn" and "Frenchman's Creek"? Daphne du Maurier John Brain Laurie Lee Jilly Cooper What is the introductory novelto the fantasy trilogy "Lord of the Rings"? The Hobbit Bridge to Terabithia Elidor The Dark is Rising What is the name of the fantasy kingdom where "it is always winter, never Christmas"? Narnia Terabithia Mordor Galkis Which famous poet had a wife, Mary, who wrote "Frankenstein"? Percy Bysshe Shelley Oscar Wilde William Blake Sir Walter Scott Which poem begins "I met a traveller from an antique land"? Osymandias The Listeners The Song of Wandering Aengus The Rider at the Gate From which novel does the terminology "doublethink", "thoughtcrime" and "Newspeak" come? 1984 Brave New World Dune Midwich Cuckoos George Bernard Shaw wrote "The...... Cart". Apple Dust Yellow Farm Where is it generally thought Western literature began, notably in the form of Drama? Greece Egypt Italy France How are Shakespeare's plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "King Lear" classified? Tragedy Comedy Historical Roman When did George Bernard Shaw, the Irish dramatist, live? 1856-1950 1743-1820 1608-1676 1834-1918 What type of poem has l4 linesand almost always concentrateson one idea with several typesof rhyming sequence? Sonnet Ballad Ode Elegy Which fictional heroine fell in love with John Ridd on Dartmoor? Lorna Doone Rebecca Cathy Earnshaw Scarlett O'Hara Who addressed poems to a mouse, a louse and a haggis? Robert Burns Edward Lear Richard Lovelace Oscar Wilde When did the "great age" of novel writing begin? Mid 18th Century 14th Century 19th Century Mid 16th Century In which of Shakespeare's plays do Puck, Oberon and Lysander appear? A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night The Comedy of Errors